Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …

We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the … conclusion. While there are several papers examining the wage equation in Poland, so far none of them has provided a … equation in Poland has not been examined in detail. Annual rates of return to university education for men vary from 6.7% to 9 …

"This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 in Poland. The increase was …

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish … extending the financial support system for poorest families in Poland on labour market incentives. We demonstrate that …-adult families. 74% of single adults without children, and 53% of lone parents in Poland live in multi-family households. -- Work …

effect on the computed average. In this paper we demonstrate the extent of this problem using data for Poland for the period … 1996-2003. During these years employment in Poland fell from 51.2% to 44.2% and most of it occurred between the end of 1998 …

model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is …

turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland, and a small open economy with increased flexibility, Estonia. We …. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …